Students and faculty from the CSCU system called for provide emergency funding after budget cuts.
Mark Ojakian
Posted inEducation
Community colleges will largely drain their reserves with no state bailout or union givebacks in sight
Connecticut’s state universities and community colleges are in fiscal crisis because of a pandemic-related enrollment drop.
Posted inEducation, Politics
Mark Ojakian is retiring as CSCU president
Mark E. Ojakian, the political operative who became president of the Connecticut State Colleges & Universities system, persisted where academics failed.
Posted inEducation
Community college tuition to remain flat under new plan
But students who attend the four regional state universities will likely face a 3.8% tuition increase next year.
Posted inEducation
Reading the tea leaves on accreditors’ views of plan to merge community colleges
The accreditors’ letter has prompted a wide array of interpretations from faculty and others who are divided over the controversial plans to merge the state’s 12 community colleges.
Posted inEducation
Faculty vote ‘no confidence’ in CSCU leaders and their college consolidation plan
Faculty who cast votes of no confidence in CSCU President Mark Ojakian and his plan to to consolidate the 12 community colleges say no one is listening to them.
Posted inNews
Regents raise tuition 5% at four regional universities
Even with the 5 percent increase in tuition, the state’s four universities face a $20 million shortfall.
Posted inEducation
Lawmakers pepper Ojakian with questions about college consolidation plan
Ojakian expects that when the 12 community colleges are consolidated into one state college — in 2023, if all goes as planned — the annual savings will be $23 million.
Posted inEducation
Bills that would stop community college merger clear committee
Lawmakers on the Higher Education Committee unanimously supported bills that would stop plans to merge the state’s 12 community colleges.
Posted inEducation
CSCU proposes 5 % tuition increase next year at four state universities
The proposed tuition hike would translate into $804 more next year for in-state students attending Central Connecticut State University in New Britain and $899 more at Southern Connecticut State University in New Haven.
Posted inEducation
Faculty, students protest consolidation plan for colleges
The group delivered a petition to Gov. Ned Lamont’s office and called on him to help.
Posted inEducation
Approval for ‘one college’ years away, but CSCU presses forward with consolidation plan
Critics of the plan fear it could put the state at risk of losing its accreditation, incur extra expenses, and hurt students.
Posted inEducation
Higher education proponents hope study makes the case to invest in CSCU
The day before Gov. Lamont releases his first budget, CSCU officials told lawmakers an economic analysis shows the system pumped $11.1 billion in income into the state’s economy in 2017.
Posted inEducation
CSCU could face shortfall as large as $57 million
CSCU officials say that shortfall would occur if state funding and tuition stay flat, and warn free tuition for all might not be in the cards.
Posted inEducation
Ben Barnes named CFO of higher-education system
Ben Barnes, who has overseen Connecticut’s state finances for eight years as Gov. Dannel P. Malloy’s only secretary of policy and management, was named Monday as the chief financial officer for the state’s sprawling system of community colleges and regional state universities.